At the PMRGCAuk AGM held in June, Professor Bhaskar Dasgupta, whose name many of you will be familiar with (he is President of our charity and a leading expert on PMR and GCA), spoke about why 2016 is a landmark year for Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis. Here is a link to his talk on video.

My new rheumy mentioned Professor Dasgupta today and his talk was really useful as it seems there is light at the end of the tunnel. My rheumy said he would write to him with a view to my being able to have Tocilizumab although I gather it is not yet licensed for GCA although there have been good effects.